Could the Real ‘Taxi of Tomorrow’ Be a DeLorean?

You may have heard there is a DeLorean taxi running around New York. But you shouldn’t count on hailing it anytime soon. The car is the product of photo manipulation that sprung from a student advertising-design competition.

Designer Mike Lubrano was behind the cab concept. He said the car, which looks like the “Back to the Future” movie vehicle painted yellow, “exists nowhere outside my photoshop files and the jpgs that are circulating around the internet these days.”

It may not be a real car, but the sleek, cartoon-like cab seems like just the kind of thing one would see on a Manhattan street. It also reminds me of how much I love the city’s current potpourri of taxis. Raise your hand at the curb today and you might wind up riding in anything from an giant Ford Crown Victoria to a Toyota Prius hybrid. Why not a DeLorean?

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